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Investors push for nature in climate plans

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... need governmental mandates to ensure widespread adoption. Estelle Parker, co-CEO at RIAA, said that the Australian government's sector decarbonisation plans must be implemented with a focus on nature-based solutions and restoring nature loss. "Nature ...

Australia climbs quickly on climate policy development

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Germany). 2023 marked a broadened focus on climate adaptation, transition, and biodiversity in Australia. The federal government cracked down on greenwashing and modern slavery, announced the development of sectoral net zero strategy approaches, put ...

BlueScope receives funding for lower emissions project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... Steel and LIBERTY Steel Australia have received a combined total of $200 million in grant funding from the federal government for projects that will lower emissions in steel production. The funding is drawn from the government's Powering the Regions ...

Accountant ethics board drafts new sustainability benchmarks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
An international independent global standards-setting board has released new standards on ethical considerations in sustainability reporting and assurance. Public consultation has opened on the two new exposure drafts, put forward by International Ethics ...

Greg Combet to depart Net Zero Economy Agency for Future Fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... position on February 4. Reemst joined the Future Fund Board of Guardians for a five-year term in October last year. The government also appointed Nicola Wakefield Evans and Rosemary Vilgan as part-time members of the Future Fund board. "These two new ...

Guide to identify and manage modern slavery for NSW entities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... affect more than $42 billion of public spending in NSW each year. The framework applies to entities that sell to the NSW government as well as other entities that have obligations under NSW modern slavery law, including local councils, certain universities ...

Forestry fund falls short of target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2). Investors in TAFF2 include Mitsui, Nomura, Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Australian government, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (SuMi TRUST), Temasek and TotalEnergies. The fund is closed-ended ...

Ad industry proposes greenwashing code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... stamping out greenwashing," said AANA CEO Josh Faulks. "The aim of releasing the Exposure Draft is to give the public, government and industry a further opportunity to help shape the standards around environmental claims." AANA and sister body Advertising ...

NSW can achieve electricity reliability without coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... good momentum building up at the end of 2023 and the promise of a lot more in 2024," Buckley said. "We had the NSW's government tender awarded for round two and then four weeks later round three awarded, which is another five projects of wind, solar ...

WEF to unlock US$2.8 tr clean energy investment in global majority nations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... countries are no longer considered accurate. The network is made up of more than twenty chief executive offers and government ministers. Nations involved in the project include Colombia, Egypt, India, Japan, Malaysia, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Norway ...